ADVANCED PLACEMENT OPPORTUNITIES

Currently Licensed Vocation Nurses or students transferring from an accredited ADN program may apply to the Cabrillo College Associate Degree Nursing Program as Advanced Placement students. Advanced Placement students will have the opportunity to graduate in two or three semesters with an Associate Degree in Nursing and be eligible to sit for the National Council Licensure Examination-Registered Nursing (NCLEX-RN). Students will receive hands on community and clinical experiences and have access to our state-of-the-art simulation lab.

Downloadable Advanced Placement applications and instructions for completing an application are available on the How to Apply page.

All Advanced Placement applicants must demonstrate completion of the Nursing Program prerequisites. Please see the Program Requirements link for prerequisite and GPA requirements on the Allied Health How to Apply page. LVN Applicants must also demonstrate that they are a graduate of an accredited Vocational Nursing Program. Transfer students must include transcripts of completed course work from a current ADN program.

The Cabrillo Nursing Program offers positions to Advanced Placement students on a space available basis only.  Spaces are made available in our program when current students withdraw from our program. Consequently it is difficult to predict when, or how many, Advanced Placement positions will be available for any given semester.

Once accepted, students will be placed on a waitlist based on the certified mail postmark of their complete application packet. Advanced Placement Wait List Information Placement in the class is based on space availability, a student’s wait list position, and comprehensive Advanced Placement Test results.

In order to determine which level they would be most successful, all Advanced Placement applicants must complete an Advanced Placement Test, Skills Testing, and Level Placement Testing prior to being offered a seat in the program. Testing opportunities are announced to all Advanced Placement wait list students in writing, via email and on our web site, when a position is made available in a class.